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Card of the Day: 2005 Bowman Draft Gold Nelson Cruz
Nelson Cruz is an intriguing player to me. Some see the guy as an up-and-comer, while other dismiss him as a Quad-A player because he’ll already be 29 years old by mid season. Personally, I do wonder...
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Card of the Day: 1990 CMC (ProCards) Jeff Bagwell
Jeffrey Robert Bagwell has always been one of my favorite players. I absolutely loved watching him crush pitches when he was in his prime with the Houston Astros. In fact, when I was a kid I liked to...
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Worst Set Ever Created: 1998 Pacific Online?
While working on my Red Sox Collection on Saturday night, I came across this 1998 Pacific Online Dennis Eckersley card. Is it me, or is this perhaps one of the worst sets ever created? This set...
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Mark Buehrle’s signature is almost perfect
Well, I finally found what I’ve been looking for, only I’m a few weeks late. You see, when Mark Buehrle threw his perfect game a few weeks back, I immediately thought about one of the oddest signatures...
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Card of the Day: 1989 Fleer Box Bottom Mike Greenwell
Back when I was a kid, I used to go to the card shop hoping that they had a few empty boxes around. The reason: The Box Bottom cards. I loved these things. I mean they were FREE cards, and sometimes...
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Topps just doesn’t like Derek Jeter
I hope Jeter is wearing a cup. Derek Jeter was a spokesman for Upper Deck. In 2007, we saw the biggest gimmick in the history of sports cards when rival card maker Topps issued a basic Derek Jeter...
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Card of the Day: 1973 Topps All-Time Home Run Leaders Ruth, Aaron, Mays
Talk about a classic card. I’ve not spent a lot of time lately working on my personal collection. Mainly I’ve been a slave to anything that interests me, and that isn’t exactly a good thing. But when...
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1998 Leaf Rookies & Stars “Standing Ovations”: A significant serial number
Since the late 1990s, serial numbered cards have become a staple in our hobby. Prior to their introduction, collectors were left wondering just how scarce scarce was. With a serialized print run,...
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Card of the Day: 1951 Bowman Bill Dickey
1951 Bowman Bill Dickey #290 This is one of those cards that just spoke to me. It yelled, grabbing my attention when I was looking for something youthful and shiny to buy. It said, “Hey, Dummy, why are...
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Card of the Day: 2011 Bowman Draft Salvador Perez rookie card
I bought a few packs of 2011 Bowman Draft at Target a few days ago and came across this Salvador Perez rookie card. While sitting at a red light, I started thumbing through some of the base cards and...
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Small bit of Topps advertising “hidden” on 1953 card
I was just looking at this Clem Labine card from the 1953 Topps set, which is perhaps one of the nicest sets ever produced. I’ve probably looked at this card a hundred times. But today I saw something...
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1973 Topps Lou Gehrig spotted in “The Goonies”
This is probably old news to many of you — or maybe not — but there is a baseball card shown in the 1985 flick, “The Goonies.” In the movie there is a story about a guy who went missing in 1934 while...
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He won more World Series titles than Ric Flair had major World Heavyweight...
Ric Flair is widely recognized as having held a major wrestling Heavyweight Championship title in the WWE(WWF), WCW, and NWA 16 times. Did you know there is a baseball player/coach who won more World...
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Baby born at San Diego’s Petco Park the second coming of “Prince?”
Earlier this week there was a child born at San Diego’s Petco Park, the first to have come into the world at the Padres’ home stadium. Surely this is not the first kid to be born at a stadium, but...
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He won more World Series titles than Ric Flair had major World Heavyweight...
Ric Flair is widely recognized as having held a major wrestling Heavyweight Championship title in the WWE(WWF), WCW, and NWA 16 times. Did you know there is a baseball player/coach who won more World...
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